Millennia of legal content criteria of lies and truths: wisdom or common-sense folly?

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Siegfried L. Sporer¹  Jaume Masip² 

[1] Department of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany;Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;

关键词: history;    deception detection;    verbal cues;    verbal content cues;    content;    field study;    perjury cases;    deception cues;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219995

 received in 2023-05-09, accepted in 2023-08-21,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Long before experimental psychology, religious writers, orators, and playwrights described examples of lie detection based on the verbal content of statements. Legal scholars collected evidence from individual cases and systematized them as “rules of evidence”. Some of these resemble content cues used in contemporary research, while others point to working hypotheses worth exploring. To examine their potential validity, we re-analyzed data from a quasi-experimental study of 95 perjury cases. The outcomes support the fruitfulness of this approach. Travelling back in time searching for testable ideas about content cues to truth and deception may be worthwhile.

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